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Feb. 10th, 2007 01:53 pmPolitics
So Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board -- those wonderful people who in 2004 rejected an application by a openly gay Mexican man for immigration status, arguing that he was too butch to face real persecution -- has done it again.
Alvaro Antonio Orozco was born in Nicarauga. By the age of 12, he knew was gay, had survived 7 suicide attempts, and had been repeatedly threatened by his murderously homophobic father. At 12, and after a brief stint in social services, he walked and hitchiked from Nicaragua along the Panamerican Highway through the rest of Central America, hoping to make it to San Francisco, which he understood as a place where he could be free.
( Orozco's story continues )
Our Minister of Immigration, Diane Finley, can reverse this order if she chooses to. I've written a a letter urging her to do so. You can, too, and the letter is postage-free if mailed in Canada:
The Honourable Diane Finley
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
MP, Haldimand–Norfolk
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
So Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board -- those wonderful people who in 2004 rejected an application by a openly gay Mexican man for immigration status, arguing that he was too butch to face real persecution -- has done it again.
Alvaro Antonio Orozco was born in Nicarauga. By the age of 12, he knew was gay, had survived 7 suicide attempts, and had been repeatedly threatened by his murderously homophobic father. At 12, and after a brief stint in social services, he walked and hitchiked from Nicaragua along the Panamerican Highway through the rest of Central America, hoping to make it to San Francisco, which he understood as a place where he could be free.
( Orozco's story continues )
Our Minister of Immigration, Diane Finley, can reverse this order if she chooses to. I've written a a letter urging her to do so. You can, too, and the letter is postage-free if mailed in Canada:
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
MP, Haldimand–Norfolk
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6